What a year! MLHS looks back on 2016 …

Note: The bench seen in the lower right of the montage, next to the trillium, was hand built by Mack Laing. It was photographed on the front porch of Shakesides, not long after Laing’s death in 1982, by author Richard Mackie, who wrote Laing’s biography, “Hamilton Mack Laing, Hunter-Naturalist (Sono Niss Press, 1985).”

The bench was removed from the front porch by persons unknown at the end of July 2015, at a time when the house had been left unsecured by the Town of Comox.